Sentences with phrase «risk of another financial collapse»

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There is an immediate risk of financial chaos; maybe not the kind of chaos that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, but certainly some ugliness.

If our financial system ever collapses (or just goes into crisis), these types of investments will be at high risk.

For the first time, the Bank of Canada added a home - price correction in Toronto, Vancouver or both to its list of four main financial risks, replacing the threat of a collapse in commodity prices, which was dropped.

The collapse of Daewoo in Korea in mid 1999 and the associated problems in the investment trust industry, as well as the suspension of three merchant banks this year, highlight the weakness that remains in Korea's financial sector and the potential risks to the region moving forward.

Since the start of this decade the rate of growth of what was perceived to be low risk assets at many banks, was significantly higher than the rate of growth of capital, a trend that played a great part in the collapse of many financial institutions.

The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings, and the Biology of Boom and Bust By John Coates Most of us would blame the 2008 financial collapse on the subprime lending meltdown.

A tax on individual transactions between financial institutions — based on the level of systemic risk that each transaction adds to the system — could essentially eliminate the risk of future collapse of the financial system, according to a new study recently published in the journal Quantitative Finance.

Recognize that DPS is at risk for financial collapse and develop a plan to replace DPS with a community «portfolio manager» board and superintendent who will see their role as overseeing a citywide system of high - quality schools rather than operating schools directly.

The risks of this type of securitization were exposed in the financial collapse of 2007.

In other words, if the collapse of a financial asset bubble does not create systematic financial and economic risk, the Federal Reserve need not intervene.

When the next wave of the financial crisis hits, it seems increasingly probable that the American deposit insurance program will collapse precisely because its resources will be consumed covering the losses experienced by the likes of BofA and its TBTF counterparties on opaque, high risk derivatives products.

This was / is true of most financial insurance, title insurance, etc., and as such, many such insurers got wiped out in the collapse of the housing bubble, because they did not realize that they were taking one big nondiversifiable risk.

Global derivative trade is currently estimated to be well over 200 Trillion dollars and the counterparty risk of default is by far, the most dangerous aspect of world financial collapse.

The collapse in the oil price to 12 - year lows and bankruptcies in the coal sector underscore the risk of «financial stranding» and signals that fossil fuel companies need to accept that they are ex-growth stocks and must urgently re-assess their business models accordingly.

These include issues such as drug resistance and other cross-border health risks, financial crises contagion, money laundering, water scarcity, fisheries collapse and, of course, climate change.

Saifu is also a fully regulated financial institution, so there is little to no risk of them collapsing in a fashion similar to Mt Gox.

It certainly doesn't pose a systemic risk to the global economy like, say, the financial collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. did, although the fearmongers will tell you otherwise.

«Built for a post-trust world, Bitreserve's real - time transparency system eliminates the opportunities for fraud and destructive risk - taking that have caused the collapse of banks and other financial institutions throughout history,» the startup's website reads.

On the debt side, commercial mortgage backed securities managed to hang tough until September when the virtual collapse of Russia's capital markets touched off a global flight of financial risk of all kinds.